A very smart ex-girlfriend of mine always began reading the Times with the obituaries. The obits, to give them their nickname, are the important epilogue to a life, a summing-up that may slightly embellish it in retrospect, but that may also be perfectly objective. This is, for many people, what, if anything, will survive..So it was fascinating to read the Times obits on a late October day (20th) when, surely for the…
SOURCE: John Simon at 01:12AM on October 25, 2017